The code and data in this folder allow to replicate the results of 

Currie, Janet and Hannes Schwandt (2016) “Inequality in mortality decreased among the young while increasing for older adults, 1990–2010”, Science, April 21, 2016.

(http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/04/20/science.aaf1437.full)

The file results.do creates all figures and tables using the data sets “LE_quantile.dta” and “mort_quantiles_county.dta”.  

The file clean.do creates the data sets “LE_quantile.dta” and “mort_quantiles_county.dta” from raw data. The sources for the raw data (which itself is not posted) is provided in the do file. 

For updates and questions please contact

hannes.schwandt at uzh.ch.

